Regex for password must contain at least eight characters, at least one number and both lower and uppercase letters and special characters

Question

I want a regular expression to check that:

A password contains at least eight characters, including at least one number and includes both lower and uppercase letter

Answer 1

I had some difficulty following the most popular answer for my circumstances. For example, my validation was failing with characters such as ; or [. I was not interested in white-listing my special characters, so I instead leveraged [^\w\s] as a test - simply put - match non word characters (including numeric) and non white space characters. To summarize, here is what worked for me...

• at least 8 characters
• at least 1 numeric character
• at least 1 lowercase letter
• at least 1 uppercase letter
• at least 1 special character

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/^(?=.*?[A-Z])(?=.*?[a-z])(?=.*?[0-9])(?=.*?[^\w\s]).{8,}$/

JSFiddle Link - simple demo covering various cases